Post Hole Diggers can be Useless

Just before Easter my wife arrnaged to hire a post-hole digger to do the holes for the fence posts. It was a two-man unit, with a 2-stroke motor an 9 to 10 inch auger. Well, we tried it out on one hole and it was useless. It was very hard to hang on to, as it dug through the ground, and very slow as the cutting angle on the blade seemed to be set so it wouldn't cut much at all! Towards the bottom of the first hole, it was beginning to have trouble in just removing the soil in the auger, let alone cut new ground as well.

We gave it up as a bad joke. Unfortunately, the hire-place was not interested in our difficulties, so it ended up being a waste of $100.